Isaac is old, blind, and house-and-bed-bound. He tastes his mortality ... conscious perhaps of the Lord’s prophecy about Jacob’s predominance (see Genesis 25:23). Rebekah also draws us into ...

for you ascended your father’s bed; then you defiled it – he ascended my couch” (Genesis 49:4). The Torah recounts that after ...

And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired ... in front of Mamre. (Genesis 49:33-50:13) Rabbi Yitzchak said to Rav Nachman: “So said ...

Genesis 49 sees him distribute blessings—some barbed, some bountiful—between his twelve sons. Then, “when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed ...

But Jacob is a trickster. We are meant to identify with him because he is so very human, and he makes very human mistakes. In chapter 32 of Genesis, Jacob is preparing to meet Esau again as he is ...

Clockwise Top L-R: Sarah Leading Hagar to Abraham. ‘Isaac Blessing Jacob’.Old Testament. Book of Genesis. Jacob in his uncle Laban's house and the father of his two wives Leah and Rachel Getty ...